Leading Industry Groups

[Hook N. Sinker]

Top 10 leading industry stock groups from Investor's Business Daily 17 February 2009:

1) Metal Ores - gold / silver
2) Schools
3) Medical - Biomedical / Biotechnology
4) Food - flour & grain
5) Medical - genetics
6) Computer software - medical
7) Finance - public investment fund bond
8) Oil & Gas transport / pipeline
9) Oil & Gas refining / marketing
10) Pharmaceuticals

 

[Kassz007]

Quote from Hook N. Sinker:

Top 10 leading industry stock groups from Investor's Business Daily 17 February 2009:

1) Metal Ores - gold / silver
2) Schools
3) Medical - Biomedical / Biotechnology
4) Food - flour & grain
5) Medical - genetics
6) Computer software - medical
7) Finance - public investment fund bond
8) Oil & Gas transport / pipeline
9) Oil & Gas refining / marketing
10) Pharmaceuticals

What is the criteria for the industry stock group to be leading? YTD share price returns? Earnings? Debt to equity ratio's in 1997?

 

[Stoxtrader]

Quote from Kassz007:

What is the criteria for the industry stock group to be leading? YTD share price returns? Earnings? Debt to equity ratio's in 1997?

I would guess relative strength in price increase (6-month or 12-month). There's more than one way to determine leading groups obviously...

http://www2.barchart.com/sectors.asp?base=industry
01. -0.43 Retail - Wholesale Auto Parts
02. -3.38 Schools
03. -5.78 Retail - Home Furniture
04. -13.55 Food - Canned
05. -17.37 Medical Information Systems
06. -18.63 Food - Misc & Diversified
07. -21.77 Finance - Mortgage & Rel Svs
08. -22.04 Finance - Misc Services
09. -22.57 Medical - Outpatient & Hm Care
10. -22.81 Retail - Discount

http://www.trending123.com/stocktable/sectorperformance.pl
01. Personal Products
02. Gold
03. Dow Jones 30 Index
04. Industrials
05. Front Runners
06. Foreign Large Blend
07. Education and Training Svcs
08. Drugs - Generic
09. Metals and Mining
10. Drug Stores